“I will say just as hard as I possibly know how to say … ‘If nominated, I will not run,’ ‘If elected, I will not serve,’ or not only no, but ‘Hell no,”‘ Cheney told “Fox News Sunday. … I’ve got my plans laid out. I’m going to serve this president for the next four years, and then I’m out of here.”

This is obviously a reference to the statement of General William Tecumseh Sherman, who said in 1884: “If I nominated I will not run. If elected I will not serve. If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.”